Laroes for meddlers was often the answer to "What's for dinner, Mother?" and
I always understood it to mean "Don't ask!" or, possibly, a smack on the
bottom for those who poked their nose in where it wasn't wanted! (Not that I
ever experienced that personally!) Maybe a beating for interfering
busybodies? I have seen it written "Larovers for Medlars". I don't think
it was meaning the medlar fruit.

>On the subject of old Norfolk foods. Whenever I or my brother asked "What's
>for dinner?" my mother invariably replied "Lahroes and Meddlers" to fob us
>off.
>Many years later I discovered that a Meddler was a type of apple popular in
>Victorian times but have never found an explanation for Lahroe (thats how
it
>sounded) anyone out there know what it is?
>Bryon
>